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Article 82
 

Peculiarities of Preparing and Holding Repeat Elections

 

1. A repeat deputy elections in a single-mandate constituency shall be conducted if deputy elections in this constituency were declared void or as not conducted, or if the individual concerned was declared as such that refused to bear deputy mandate, in accordance with Article 79, paragraph 5, of the present Law.       

 

2. The decision to hold repeat deputy elections in a single-mandate constituency shall be made by the Central Election Commission within time limits prescribed in Article 15, paragraph 5, of the present Law.

 

3. Repeat deputy elections in a single-mandate constituency are held during the last week of the sixty-day period from publication of the decision to fix such elections. Voting shall be conducted by the same constituency election commissions and polling station commissions at the same polling stations using the same lists of voters that were used for regular (midterm) elections. The nomination and registration of candidates for deputies and other electoral procedures shall be conducted according to Article 84 of this Law.

 

4. The form and the text of ballot for voting in a multi-mandate constituency and the form of ballot for voting in a single-mandate constituency during the repeat voting shall be approved by the Central Election Commission at least 24 days before elections. Respective election commission shall approve the text of ballot for voting in a single-mandate constituency at least 20 days before elections.

 

5. May not stand for repeat deputy elections in a single-mandate constituency individuals that were found by the court guilty of that deputy elections or repeat voting in a single-mandate constituency had been declared void, as well as individuals whose registration as candidates for deputies was cancelled based on violation of the present Law.